Alan Garner Quotes

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Alan Garner

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• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Friends
  • Old
  • Comforting

• When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• It's very special having a new little girl.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Girl
  • New
  • Special

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Attention

• On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • You
  • Questions

• It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Awarded

• Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Work
  • God

• History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Time
  • History

• Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World

• I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Childhood

• The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Bird
  • Solitary
  • Brood

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • Bad
  • Today

• I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Movies

• Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

  

  Alan Garner